and this is all that we detail coverage when mexico elected a new president last year they did so largely on the promises that he would end the plague of violence in the country and feel this generalism from those around the well to this valley was a phrase i played that doc attracted a lot of tough and to me out of his rallies held in hong kong. for well over a year now from his yellow vests activists have been making full use of the constitution in trying right to protest against the economic policies president emanuel from but the often uncompromising response of your thirty's has raised disturbing questions about the appropriate use of force to police those demonstrations giuliana rufus has been to investigate claims from his democratic principles of being on tonight.

barely your. 16th of march 29 t. . yellow vests protesters were back on parish. a famous street that they felt appeared to mice the political and economic system they had excluded the. shops were broken into and fires. it had become irrelevant strategy to protest without permission and in places of power where the government had never tolerated demonstrations protests that had been authorized by the government they

said had failed to get results. the police responded with unmitigated force using military grade tear gas grenades and riot control guns. that's you on the floor. chlorinated to control his then one load in steam says he's been getting ready to leave when a rubber bullet from a police riot control gun took out his eye. the weapon called an l b d 40 was developed for self-defense but on this day french police were using it for crowd control it's designed to injure protesters lightly and should never be fired at the head. do you think he could have been mistaken between aiming at your head or your chest opposite of insult or more 00 effort.

is that evolution is full of poor. and. simple so which culture in office would. daveed and the other yellow vests have always insisted they are a social movement desperate to get their voices heard but france's president stayed silent when they 1st took to the streets and when he finally spoke it was in order to justify the use of full state force to crush them on the design mr boies window so that really. they don't get sick in addition to the fear issue that the new regime in order to reach even though they can sit in the field on the side of the mississippi. almost a year of confrontations have caused some soul searching. the right to protest is taken very seriously here in france and in the wake of the yellow vests protest

there are growing concerns that it's being threatened the philosophy of the police response the weapons used and the detentions of protests there's always serious questions about tactics used by the french police. burgundy fronts many of the protesters come from the countries neglected rural regions. we've come to meet great and steen who explained how the yellow vest movement started in november 28th seen living john boehner. who's the real. hero those who call. to. protest this began to occupy roundabouts after the government increased fuel prices but anger had been building since the economic crisis 10

years earlier. the government had bailed out big banks said david but failed to support small businesses. in the process off and so forth. the more mission chosen the best things about being. in the implementors are. the protesters erected traffic book aids and disrupted an infrastructure which they said serve the economic elite and they had shared an anger at losing out so often in prison officers on the linking of those proponents of over 4 dollars also as well so much so much of all these all the. music you might know. of it. it was in the cities where violence erupted and where the police were overwhelmed. joined by militant protesters called black bloc yellow

vests carried out symbolic acts of destruction that shocked france and the world. the police equipped with some of the most menacing weapons available to european law enforcement. to crack down hard blow. for tear gas grenades filled with $25.00 milligrams of explosives had rained on protesters causing injuries and even loss of limbs. after 4 months the ministry of interior estimated that around 1600 police were injured and on the other so you over 2000 protesters probably many system lists knows them here and i call city to see. on the list all. in this kind.

have you lost i lose it in this room that has announced their manifesto. want to leave. us so. i can design. a blog post. does the conversion. district a more limited fist on. 2 sides how many critics or more issues requests you know. so then the more you answer questions from the don't they manifest as. francis police authorities declined to speak to us about their tactics during protests. but a police trainer said he told me if we disguised his identity. in. the train i demonstrated the precision of the l.d.d.

. first he aimed at the targets head. and then he shot the dummy squarely in the chest. was it already broken or did you break it. meant to not and do not remember. so it wasn't the impact of the weapon that drew his criticism but the failure of police officers to use it properly. and that in 20182 months before the yellow vests started marching the national audit office had criticised the low number and poor quality of police training facilities. i was source says the riot control guns were nevertheless given to the insufficiently trained offices. if.

we blog every little contact in the corner you. will be real. compound compounds tampon bomb. was discussed a lot within police circles. the police training like this should be funded by the interior ministry but why are they not doing it. 2019 b. average president mccone had invited the world leaders to the g. 7 summit and the global media had gathered to follow the events. the french government had done everything it could to lower the risk of violent

encounters with protesters and we found a region under tight control. 13000 extra police officers have been drafted in from across europe to help provide security. opponents of the g. 7 were being kept over 20 kilometers away on the border with spain. worth or a tease had given permission for a march. in. one of those fronting it was 73 year old genevieve a protester who had been seriously injured by the police at a yellow vest march 5 months earlier. after suffering a fractured skull and 5 broken groups she was a bit fragile but ready to march again. most of those of us that were victim yankeeland and there's only research you think i've read this is yes monica not from london for sydney the honest truth you're not worried when i. know you.

want to talk to the people who did it to come on you this is your money this is going to diminish my speech it was all. in sync with his own. and. the march set off towards the spanish border although hoping it would unfold peacefully. the government's forceful approach to policing protests had drawn criticism not just at home. but also abroad causing the president to strike a more conciliatory note. just before the g 7 started president gore said that he was moved by the plan except more violence suffered by protests in iran he said that from now on his government would act with transparency and more just as

everybody is watching protests here now to see what will happen. in the run up to the g. 7 summit the police relied heavily on new legal powers given to them at the height of the yellow vests protests. that could now address protesters on the mere suspicion that they might pose a threat to public order and a number of people have been put in detention slowly but. he's all but. it's an approach to policing protests known as strategic incapacitation controversial because people here would be in a respite before any crimes had actually been committed. and then the $10000.00 demonstrators reached the border. the protesters are now crossing this bridge out of france and into spain which means

that today so far at least there's been no violent confrontation with the french police. but we've heard that in and also vice demonstration was planned in the nearby city of by your own by militant protesters on the grounds that having to ask the state for permission to demonstrate infringe their constitutional right. the rest had taken place throughout the previous night and a heavy police presence was in place to stop an expected 1500 militant protesters from reaching the city center. to our surprise a protester who slipped through the security cordon agree to speak to us on condition that we hide his face. do you think there's going to be violence today you and i only hope yes those are all watching watching. you still he

told us he started out as a peaceful yellow vests protester but that police violence radicalized him you have to be crazy to feel what was your 1st born it's not real bullets no it's like you can stand on the open sea and. old people know me or. clothes or. most of them want. to stop the sport and. suddenly the police turned up behind the camera because when we have a bunch of police now wondering what we're doing they're going to get for striking and it's for sure. you would enjoy reading everybody's bags are getting track now. when we filmed them they left and the protesters started to justify the use of firelands so clever too for freedom of the people who have to fight but we would put all those. people in support of good is much better if you did washing but you

would be fooled of course we texted you should you. around the corner the police was searching for anyone who looked like a threat to public law and order and suddenly that seemed to be us as we were carrying gas masks and helmets to stay safe during the expected confrontations i guess you want to keep it overly guarded for my security and secret in many signs of it was you know a fair amount of hussein ok but you know when i got to the crisis in the summers on my listeners on palin came out of what are you completely of the palatable onslaughts. by now other journalists were starting to film us. and officer took our kit and we were told we could only have it back once the g. 7 summit was over. it's in cuts or no one is going in the zone 2 more so i can see a similar because you don't stir your frustrations and you did the goebbels on

concorde on his own video message as it goes so through your book who does this film work on 21 examples of a concept you wanted also yours and the more you polices want to go america is always positive news the wrong podium but because it was. left without protection it was hard to shake off the feeling that the police were not just trying to stop violent protests but the reporting on it too. but we still made our way to the center where the clashes were about to unfold. just. watched. we actually super lucky that the wind is blowing in that direction because it started with tear gas and without the protection gear that you boarded.

only around $200.00 protesters had made it to buy on and past the checkpoint and within a couple of hours they were contained by the police. in the end it had been a small protest especially by french standards. but events continued over the following days and controversially they included stuff from a human rights organisation so by the time the g 7 was over civil society observers were voicing criticism that not only violent protests but free speech and democratic rights had been suppressed to. meet our point of police put a piece on paper because of in demand yeah the gowns are not audience in many fist i shall go nowhere man yeah and seeing me put this all.

leprechaun is wrong to sponsor an idiot it is all so quick to. risk it all proved it is all talk and i think there's no. visibility coming. in people can believe in what your kid will you know. keep people similar. but it's good moreover that it devolves to then do them and yeah. manton yawn on the prisoner and it is all so they feel so good i mean just as for anybody to move on these days or not and i dish with her. hands on it on the hans. device on the way to id. the 1000000 the president and his used is the zach to be tuesday. he's off in the middle. in the swiss alps over 600 kilometers away a group of people had gathered to plan a different kind of protest the region is home to berger and tom it the swiss

company that manufactures the l b d weapon used by the french police we've come to meet daveed laden steen again together with several other yellow vests all being wounded during demonstrations. the men who call themselves the collective of the wounded showed us an l b d bullet here in switzerland it is classified as a weapon of war a lot of money a former army section chief was hit in the neck. but you pull of holes in the jury of design we come so a lot different you know p. says. each of these men had requests that the inspector general of the french

national police to launch an investigation into their injury but without much success ok so noisy you know you'll see the more the pieces lossage of logic to drop a concept of it will cause you're only going to fuel source or swallow your alone was angry that the authorities had failed to open an investigation into this case despite the mountain of evidence he supplied you know where you live for to. have a disappearance get in the circuit in more. detail maturity to those limits on issues to seek you are going to exert. a. little beetle. in fact these men are not isolated cases since the beginning of the yellow vests protests well over $300.00 investigations into alleged police violence have been opened and less than

a handful have been concluded if any of them have been unfairly wounded it seems the authorities are in no hurry to accept it. the following morning the yellow vests set off towards the weapons factory. who had a swiss yellow vests ally wants to ban the export of l b d s on the basis that they're classed as a weapon of war here in switzerland but used against civilians in front. of the big unless he's just as it were being the. desire for them or give us a less routes to donate it to the saudis are lower police have a go this could be for the most it's a very common. it's believed that they were hoping that the weapons manufacturers c.e.o. would speak to them. well. wolf it's a job there but you. know what you. want to.

see. it. but at the weapons factory everyone had gone into hiding come on to the song to at least see him and launch my blysse generally e.c.g. a foggy question of young. johnny dojo i go they will come up and if you just see a look they're looking at us when they are. instead the man took photos for the social media campaign frustrated by the failure of france's authorities to launch investigations into their injuries they have clung to a faint hope that change may come from switzerland. it was a very demure pass and he. had to listen.

once i got an opinion there you know some bets on abandoned i want a. guess and they said they won't require should have been memoir misrata had tussles i can't plant point that it was equal to the. record. it as an organ. for little supporters remember. this is where you are on. the. news i wish him. luck this. is. september 2019. we return to meet biden steen one last time. he was back on the streets with a collective of the wounded to call on the government to ban the weapons that

injured them. and 20 who lost his hand due to a police going 8 told us protesters have been unfairly branded as violent. fashion quote this is the issue on his own to be told him going. on nothing much is on all of us are passive all of us i'm sure don't oh i think you know your own. home your heart your body sludge an older version i was told it was. in november 28th seen the yellow vests began their protests believing that france is political and economic system was stacked against them. almost a year later they were still on the streets this time with crosses for those who have been injured and who are waiting for justice few of them believe that the

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